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Wayland isn’t quite ready

Well, at least from a sample size of one. I thought I’d upgrade my Ubuntu XPS13 from Groovy-whatever-it-was to Hirsute Hippo (21.04 I guess?). It moved me to use Wayland by default. Some bits feel OK – somehow the visual feedback from app launching seems better (it may not be any quicker) … But …… Continue reading Wayland isn’t quite ready

Backing up Elasticsearch 7 to Azure container storage

backing up elasticsearch in an azure container … random notes that might have saved me an hour or two of faffing around

Packer and Azure

I needed to build some Virtual Machine images (using packer) for work the other day. I already have a configuration setup for packer (but for AWS) and when trying to add in support for an ‘azure-arm‘ builder, I kept getting the following error message in my web browser as I attempted to authenticate packer with… Continue reading Packer and Azure

Asus PN50 Desktop review

A few weeks ago I bought an ASUS PN50 as a new desktop (to replace an aging Intel Skull Canyon NUC, which was starting to crash once a week – presumably with a hardware fault). I’d given up waiting for Intel to release a new NUC version – but of course a few weeks after… Continue reading Asus PN50 Desktop review

It’s been a long time ….

10 print “hello again world”

Postfix – qshape

Somehow I’ve only just found out about ‘qshape’. It’s a nice little tool to help show what’s going on, on a postfix based mail server. You can summarise by sender (-s) and choose the queue …. which is a bit easier than trying to spot patterns in the ‘mailq’ output.

Dell XPS 13 (9300) … first thoughts

I finally got fed up with my Google Pixelbook (nice keyboard, but ChromeOS was just too annoying and it seemed to lack the ‘oomph’ when it came to using e.g. phpStorm). Anyway, I bought a i7 Dell xps 13 (9300 …. it has an i7-1065G7 processor). Random thoughts : It’s fan is quite noisy (not… Continue reading Dell XPS 13 (9300) … first thoughts

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